Rescuing Atticus

Taking off with Sara

Song: Superheroes- The Script

I had the night off...and it felt great to get out of the house. I find my way downtown and park the car when I see her walking down the road with a few of her friends. I haven't seen her in so long that she probably won't even recognize me at first. I run up to catch up to them and then bump into her as I walk on past her. "Excuse me...how rude." She says all pissed off because she nearly dropped her phone. I hear her tell her friends, "What a freaking jerk...like can't he see us walking here."

I turn back around to apologize to her. "Oh...I'm sorry excuse me...I didn't mean..." I look up at her and the flat smile on her face curls up just a little. I see her eyes light up a little when she sees who I am.

"Atticus...holy hell is that you?" She reaches out and grabs my arms. "What the hell happened to you?" She continues to squeeze my arms, noticing the small difference. It's been almost six months since I have seen her and I'm not as boney as I was before. "I thought you dropped off the face of the Earth where have you been."

"Around...yeah...I dropped out of school...you know with Tony and his dogs always fucking with me it was just better this way."

"Yeah well...Tony and his dogs got there ass kicked really bad a few months ago. Rumor has it that you had something to do with it." Her lip curls more upward in the edge, not to mention the way her nose scrunches up a little. Ok...so I was really focusing on her.

"Me...hell I couldn't hurt a fly." I start to laugh then catch up beside her and her friends as they start walking back down the sidewalk. Or the old me couldn't hurt a fly...the new me well that is someone no one really wants to mess with. "So where are you lovely ladies headed?" I ask as they continue to walk.

"We were just going down to the ice cream shop...you could join us if you want." She says and then her and her friends start to giggle. She shrugs them off and rolls her eyes before looking back at me with a kind hearted smile.

"Ok." I hold the door open as all four of them walk in. They stand in line and order, when it is my turn I order and hand the man a twenty to pay for all of the cones.

"You didn't have to do that. Since when do you have money anyway?"

Yeah she would think that...the poor boy from the other side of tracks that doesn't have shit. The last time I saw her I was living on the streets wearing the same clothes every day. Yeah...that was the old me, that me no longer exist. "Really I don't mind paying and actually I have a really good job now."

"Really...so what does a guy like you do; I mean you dropped out of school after all?" She takes a long lick of her ice cream and love seeing the way some of it is left behind on her sweet lips...it takes everything in me not o reach over and lick it right off.

"I finished school...just not with you guys and I work for a guy that pays well."

"Well...that must be nice."She makes a silly face at her friends and licks the ice cream some more.

We are sitting there minding our own business when the door opens up and in walks Tony and the rest of his little circle of friends. We make eye contact and then he comes over and looks at is sister and then at me. "You should get your ass home where you belong...why the hell are you out with this fucking loser?"

"You're not my father Tony...so stop acting like it. Besides we are just talking." She then gestures towards me. "You remember Atticus from school right...didn't I hear he already kicked your ass once." Her nose wrinkles up before she gives me a wink and it really pisses him off. All her friends burst out laughing but it pisses him off even more.